Mary Murphy's Butte oral history project 1980-1981

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Mary Murphy's Butte oral history project 1980-1981

From 1980-1981, Mary Murphy, working with Helen Bresler, conducted a series of labor history oral history interviews with a variety of Butte, Montana, working-class residents. The interviewees ranged from miners, grocers, waitresses, boarding house keepers to a blacksmith, union agent and nurse.

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